"Rupnik was excommunicated in 2020 for absolving the sins of a novice with whom he had sex. But that excommunication was lifted within the same month after Rupnik repented. One expert voice in the documentary points out that the excommunication could only have been lifted with authorization from Pope Francis. Rupnik was also a renowned artist, painting mosaics that would hang in the Vatican."
"Branciani, who, alongside Kovac, was part of the Ignatius of Loyola community that Rupnik co-founded in Slovenia, recounts how the Jesuit priest allegedly groomed and then sexually and psychologically abused her in ways that grew increasingly aggressive and violent in the early 90s. He coaxed her into joining Loyola so she didn't lose her connection to Christ. He would speak of religious art and iconography suggestively, describing paintings of the virgin mother revealing the baby Jesus's leg sensually, for example."
Nuns vs the Vatican follows women whose sexual-abuse allegations were long ignored and examines Church structures that shield abusers. The film centers on Gloria Branciani and Mirjam Kovac, among dozens who allege abuse by Marko Rupnik, a former Jesuit priest awaiting canonical trial for sexual, spiritual and physical abuse. Rupnik was excommunicated in 2020 for absolving the sins of a novice with whom he had sex; that excommunication was lifted within the same month after Rupnik repented, a move an expert says required papal authorization. Rupnik is a renowned Vatican mosaic artist once called the Michelangelo of the John Paul II papacy. Branciani recounts grooming, escalating violence, and sexualized theological manipulation.
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